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FCC Chmn. Powell Wed. named Bryan Tramont as his new chief of sta...

FCC Chmn. Powell Wed. named Bryan Tramont as his new chief of staff, a position that Marsha MacBride said earlier this week she was departing after 2-1/2 years. Tramont is Powell’s senior legal adviser, handling wireless, technology, international and…

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other issues. He had a similar portfolio before that as senior adviser to Comr. Abernathy. He’s been an aide to Powell since Sept. 2002. Before joining Abernathy’s office, he was legal adviser to then Comr. Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Prior to the Commission, Tramont was an attorney with Wiley, Rein & Fielding. He’s a graduate of Yale Law School and an adjunct law professor at Catholic U. The Mo. native also worked as a law clerk for Judge Duane Benton of the Mo. Supreme Court.